UK-based user experience designer & accessibility specialist, Ian Hamilton, is making the trip to Australia and will be appearing at an IGDA Melbourne event in December on the topic of accessibility in games. His specialties are:

The IGDA Melbourne meet up for October this month won't be your typical IGDAM Tuesday event as the organisers are expecting a mix of interstate and overseas developers with local regulars attending as this event happens straight after the GCAP 2012: Inspire conference wraps up.

IGDA Melbourne is aiming to outdo their past four Christmas gatherings and plans to make this year's end-of-year-event for their local games developer chapter a HUGE one. Their Ninja Clapping themed event signalling off 2011 was an extremely successful campaign on Pozible so it's no surprise that they're going the crowd sourcing route again for this year.

What:IGDA Melbourne have organised another awesome Open Mic Night where presenters will be showing off what they've been working on. Everyone is also encouraged to bring along their own prototypes and demos for feedback, so pack your laptops and mobile devices and come along!

Playtesting will go throughout the evening, and the microphone will be powered up around 7pm for a variety of talks including from:

IGDA Melbourne are holding a special event in April related to the Games Developer Conference which wrapped up a few weeks ago in San Francisco. These fine folks below are scheduled in to discuss their experience at this year's GDC and what they took away from what sounds like a huge event for games developers the world over.